Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward

Over a thousand CEOs, prime ministers, finance ministers, andleading academics gather in February to attend meetings and seteconomic agendas for the year ahead. With this as a setting, he thensays: "What if a small group of these world leaders were to concludethat the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the richcountries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries wouldhave to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment.

Will they do it?... The group's conclusion is 'no.' the rich countrieswon't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the

group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrializedcivilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?."

"This group of world leaders," he continues, "form a secret societyto bring about an economic collapse. It's February. They're all atDavos. These aren't terrorists. They're ivorld leaders. They have

positioned themselves in the world's commodity and stock markets.

They've engineered, using their access to stock exchanges andcomputers and gold supplies, a panic. Then, they prevent the world'sstock markets from closing. They jam the gears. They hire mercenarieswho hold the rest of the world leaders at Davos as hostages. Themarkets can't close. The rich countries..." And Strong makes a slightmotion with his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out the

window.

I sit there spellbound. This is not any storyteller talking, this isMaurice Strong. He knows these world leaders. He is, in fact,co-chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum. He sits atthe fulcrum of power. He is in a position to do it.

"I probably shouldn't be saying things like this," he says.1

Maurice Strong's fanciful plot probably shouldn't be taken too seriously, at least in terms of a literal reading of future events. It is unlikely they will unfold in exactly that manner—although it is not impossible. For one thing, it would not be necessary to hold the leaders of the industrialized nations at gun point. They would be the ones engineering this plot. Leaders from Third-World countries do not have the means to cause a global crisis. That would have to come from the money centers in New York, London, or Tokyo.

Furthermore, the masterminds behind this thrust for global government have always resided in the industrialized nations. They have come from the ranks of the CFR in America and from other

1- "The Wizard of Baca Grande," by Daniel Wood, West magazine, May, 1990,p. 35.

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branches of the International Roundtable in England, France, Belgium, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere. They are the ideological descendants of Cecil Rhodes and they are fulfilling his dream.